Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail
Posted in Red Hat, Technology on Sep 26th, 2008
If you’re not already too late - there’s a chance to get your hands on a (mostly) free OLPC if you’re willing to commit to some testing of Fedora on the OLPC. I’ve signed up but fully expect my 7 year old daughter to be doing the testing
The mostly free bit is that [...]
We’re about half way through my first full Atlantic Hurricane Season. Hannah moved through North Carolina pretty quickly and fortunately left nothing but rain. I’ve looked at a few online hurricane trackers - but StormPulse is the nicest I’ve seen.
There’s probably a really good, practical reason to run JBoss AS on an iPhone - I [...]
Sacha Labourey on JBoss AS 5, OSGi and beyond on DZone. Bill Burke on REST and JAX-RS. btw there’s a whole Microzone on Java Lobby / DZone dedicated to JBoss.
You can now catch up with videos from the JBoss community about JBoss people and technology on YouTube, blip.tv and Streamocracy,
Tha VAR Guy on Red Hat, [...]
Posted in Business on Jul 6th, 2008
Some good commentary on Microsoft’s Vista flop on SeekingAlpha - interestingly Windows XP sales are booming. This creates an interesting situation for Microsoft. As I’ve mentioned before - they’re increasingly competing against some fast moving competitors (Linux and OS/X) with some very old, quickly decaying technology (Windows XP). So while selling XP might make short [...]
Posted in Technology on Jun 29th, 2008
Neil McAllister over at InfoWorld has what starts like a doom and gloom piece on the demise of Java. Having seen this kind of sensationalist drivel too often I was inclined to ignore it (and the ensuing thread on /.). I’m glad I didn’t i - Neil makes some good points and presents them well. [...]
Posted in Cogitation, Red Hat on Jun 10th, 2008
I wonder if Mike Desjardins has found a niche - popularizing Open Source technology through music. The lyrics are pretty good - though we might have to have them reviewed by the Hibernate team for technical accuracy and consistency
A different perspective on our Solar system from the NASA’s Cassini probe - the pictures [...]
Posted in Business on Apr 11th, 2008
We (continue to) live in interesting times. It will be intersting to see how Microsoft fare over the next five years; the knives are drawn - Gartner claims that Microsoft’s troubles are a result of their past success - ie they’re overly burdedned by their installed base in a classic example of the Innovator’s Dilema. [...]